Terms Flashcards
An ideology
An organized collection of ideas about government, politica, religion, etc.
Capital
A factor of production that is not wanted for itself but for its ability to help in producing goods
Class struggles
The tension between the capitalists and the ones that want the capital (can cause ex. wars)
Totalitarianism
A political system in which the government controls every aspect of its peoples public and private lives. It is therefore a very intolerant system
Ex. Soviet Union under Josef Stalin and Nazi Getmany under Adolf Hitler. And nowadays North-Korea
The secret services of russia
Cheka
NKVD
KGB
FSB (current)
Anti-semitism
Hatred against jewish religion and culture and at this time hitler said that jews are not only a threat because of their culture, but because of their race
A pogrom
A from of violent ript, a mob attack, either approved or condoned by government or military authorities, directed against a particular group, wether ethnic, religious, or other and characterized by killings and destruction of their homes, religious centers and property. The term was originally used to describe violence against jews in the russian empire
NEP
new economic policy
Collectivization
The Collectivization of agriculture means the forced merging of small private farms into large state enterprises (Kolkhoz). This term is often used to describe Stalin’s agricultural renovations between 1928 and 1939. These
‘Collectivization’s’ have cost millions of lives due to the ruthless and cruel methods (deliberate starvation of whole districts, like in the Ukraine) used by Stalin
Communism
Historically: the principle of communal ownership of all property in society; basic economic resources are owned by ‘the people’ who are represented by the Communist Party. Modern communism is grounded in the ideas of Karl Marx. He hoped to see a society with no socio-economic difference between, for example, manual and intellectual labor, or urban and rural life. Social relations would be regulated by the maxim, ‘from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs’. Centrally planned economies have been developed in accordance
with this ideology and there have been many forms of communism, all supposedly seeking the
classless society
Propaganda
Propaganda is a set of messages aimed at
influencing or changing people’s opinions
about anything but mostly referring to
political items
Purges
In history and political science, to purge is to remove people considered by the group in power
to be “undesirable” from a government, political party, a profession, or from community or society as a whole, often by violent means. The term “purge” is often associated with the
Stalinist and Maoist regimes. Those who were purged (among them artists, scientists, teachers,
people in the military, but also many long-time communists who dared to disagree with the party
leadership) were sent to labor camps or executed. The most notorious of these purges was the Great Purge initiated by Joseph Stalin during the 1930s
Holodomor
The famine which struck the Soviet Union in the winter of 1932-33 was unlike 1921
and appears to be ‘organized’ by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin whose main goal was
to force farmers into collectivization. It is estimated that between 2 and 7 million
people died from this man-made famine in Russia
War communism
Lenins ruthless policy durung the civil war
Plan economy
The five year plans for modernising economy
